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PETITIONER: MADHYA PRADESH MINERAL INDUSTRYASSOCIATION
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE REGIONAL LABOUR COMMISSIONERJABALPUR AND OTHERS
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 07/04/1960
BENCH: GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B. BENCH: GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B. WANCHOO, K.N. GUPTA, K.C. DAS
CITATION: 1960 AIR 1068 1960 SCR (3) 476 CITATOR INFO : F 1966 SC 189 (10) R 1972 SC1177 (5,12,15,20)
ACT: Minimum Wages, Fixation of-Notification by State Government prescribing minimum rates for stone-breaking or stone- crushing in mines - Validity - Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), SS. 5 (2), 27, Sch., Part 1 item 8.
HEADNOTE: The Madhya Pradesh Government issued a notification under s. 5 (2) of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (II of 1948), prescribing 477 the minimum rates of wages for employment in stone breaking and stone crushing operations carried on in mines in exercise of the authority delegated to it by the President by a notification under Art. 258 of the Constitution. The appellant company, engaged in manganese mining industry, challenged the validity of the said notification by a writ petition filed in the High Court and its case was that the said notification was ultra vires s. 5(2) of the Act. The High Court found against the appellant and rejected the petition. The question for determination in the appeal, therefore, was whether item 8 i...